Interdicting

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Interdict \In`ter*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Interdicted}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Interdicting}.] [OE. entrediten to forbid
     communion, L. interdicere, interdictum. See {Interdict}, n.]
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     1. To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict
        intercourse with foreign nations.


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              Charged not to touch the interdicted tree. --Milton.
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     2. (Eccl.) To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the
        enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an
        individual.
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              An archbishop may not only excommunicate and
              interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may
              do the same.                          --Ayliffe.
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